The Compact Reader - Paperback
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11 short stories and novellas spanning the history of the Compact. In the present day, a man is accidentally uploaded into an AI and begins undermining the tech bro responsible for his transformation. Find out the crime that haunts Tol Germanicus in the Suicide Arc and how the original Gelt homeworld fell. Witness JT Austin's first days on Amargosa and Ellie Nardino's rise to resistance leader of three species. Learn who the Grays really are and discover the truth behind a Gelt Sovereign's murder. From today's turbulent world to humanity's near extinction by its own hand, from the Gelt's loss of their cradle to another man's upload into cyberspace. And of course, JT and Ellie live out a Hallmark story. In space. With wolf-like aliens. And zero-G frolicking.
And kaiju. Yeah, some planets have kaiju.TS Hottle is a science fiction writer originally from Cleveland. By night, he writes, cooks, golfs, plays video games with his future stepson, and fights with a cat named Tearyon. By day, he is a software developer. Sometimes, he wins against the cat, but not often.
For fifteen years, he wrote crime fiction under the name Jim Winter. Now he has returned to his first love, science fiction He has created The Compact Universe, a series of loosely connected space opera tales centered around humans' disastrous first contact with a species known as the Gelt.
He lives in the Cincinnati suburb of Deer Park with his fiancee Candy and her son. When not writing or cooking, they both can be found fixing up their newly purchased Cape Cod. Which has a deck. Which makes TS very happy.
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